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Coatlicue, whose name means "Serpent Skirt," was the Earth goddess of life and death in the ...
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Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility in the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...
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Coyolxauhqui represents the Moon in the Aztec mythology. Her name means "Golden Bells." She ...
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Huitzilopochtli was the patron deity in Aztec mythology. The Aztecs were an ancient civilization ...
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Most of the astronomical beliefs of the Aztecs of central Mexico are known from the existing ...
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Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is an Aztec deity representing the planet Venus and an apparition of ...
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The Pleiades were known to the Aztecs as Tianquiztli which means the "marketplace." The Pleiades ...
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Sumatra experiences frequent seismic activity because it is located near the boundary of two of Earth's tectonic plates. Earthquakes occur at 'subduction zones,' such as the one west of Indonesia, when...
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